The Red Crown

True Weird Stuff

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Science, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Today's True Weird Stuff - The Red Crown

You’ve heard of Bonnie and Clyde. But before one of the most infamous crime sprees in American history came to a bullet-riddled end, Bonnie, Clyde, and their cohorts foundthemselves cornered by the law in a motel in Parkville, Missouri. With no other choice but toshoot their way out, this is the tale of The Barrow Gang at The Red Crown.

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0:00.0	Hey, true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus content and conversation.
0:08.5	The Roadside Motel, an American classic, from family vacations to sleazy rendezvous to hideouts for bank robbers to Norman Bates.
0:21.0	The roadside motel is 100% pure Americana.
0:27.2	Things happen in motels.
0:29.5	Dark things.
0:31.0	Secret things.
0:33.0	Violent things.
0:35.3	This is a story about a motel and the outlaws who made it infamous.
0:43.5	And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.
0:45.9	I don't know.
0:49.0	Real,
0:49.5	right.
0:50.3	I'm a lot.
0:51.3	No, no, no.
0:52.3	No.
0:53.3	No. What are you're going to happen. Oh, The very weird. The very first motel in the whole
1:08.0	on the whole world opened on December 12, 1925 in San Luis Obispo, California.
1:15.5	It was an idea born of the explosion of car culture in America.
1:20.8	Suddenly, people could travel in a way that had never before been possible.
1:25.5	The only real problem was the roads. That and the reliability of
1:30.2	automobiles on those roads. Even a trip of a few hundred miles could take several days.
1:37.0	Back then, people used to just pull over and set up camp on the side of the road. Sometimes with
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